In practice, the victory gives one point and the lost zero point. In case of a draw, both players share the point.
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Quotes of the Day
” Chess is most certainly not my life.”
Tony Miles
The game of chess is turning out to be much richer than we knew-you can’t reduce it to the simple rules
Vishy Anand 2017
I understood that through chess I could express myself and chess became my natural language.
Boris Spassky 1995
Chess is a game by its form, an art by its content and a science by the difficulty of gaining mastery in it. Chess can convey as much happiness as a good book or work of music can. However, it is necessary to learn to play well and only afterwards will one experience real delight.
Tigran Petrosian
Chess is a scientific game and its literature ought to be placed on the basis of the strictest truthfulness, which is the foundation of all scientific research.
W. Steinitz